Andrea Zonca

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High Performance Computing, #Kubernetes, #Python, Cosmology with Planck, now data pipelines for Simons Observatory and CMB-S4. Staff San Diego Supercomputer Center & consultant. he/him.
Bloghttps://zonca.dev
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Githubhttps://github.com/zonca/

The reaction in academia to the need to change assessment practice in the light of #ChatGPT etc reminds me of this joke:

Q: How many academics does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: What do you mean, change?

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

very useful when SSH-ing into a machine requires a two-factor authentication code.

The password manager @bitwarden also has a command line tool https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/, so it is possible to get two-factor auth codes on the command line with:

bw get totp servicename

Password Manager CLI | Bitwarden

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your Vault.

Bitwarden
Outdated Periodic Table

xkcd
#Tmobile now has free 256 Kbps international data. Pretty handy, it also supports low quality video-call with WhatsApp or FB messenger.
The very first meme I made on Mastodon and if I do say so myself, itโ€™s aged pretty well. #elonmusk #twittermigration #twitter

Working with Jupyter Notebooks leads often to some kind of chaos: no coding standards, missing documentation etc.

Black, pydocstyle, isort, pylint, mypy are absolute standard #Python tools for a proper CI/CD pipeline.

I just want to give you a recommendation how one can clean-up Notebooks a little bit: nbQA. It provides all important clean-up tool for Notebooks #coding #datascience

https://github.com/nbQA-dev/nbQA

GitHub - nbQA-dev/nbQA: Run ruff, isort, pyupgrade, mypy, pylint, flake8, and more on Jupyter Notebooks

Run ruff, isort, pyupgrade, mypy, pylint, flake8, and more on Jupyter Notebooks - nbQA-dev/nbQA

GitHub
So many friends and colleagues posting cute content about OpenAI. Y'all do know you're doing advertising / cultural normalization work for Peter Thiel, Elon and the effective altruism creep show right? The tool may have productive, even joyful uses โ€” but this is a situation where a few impressive and charming party tricks can distract us from the immense collective harms being done by the co-founders. Please check in with yourselves before choosing how to engage this.
Please boost if youโ€™re still masking indoors (in public places)